Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-12-22
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

p~,anaratious are now being mace
,or ! bio celebration at Sioux Fans
nnon the completion OF the Illinois
Central railroad to that place. me
burrah will be carried out on q grano
scale.
AFarmers' Institute meeting aooary
lasted three days.
At Aberdeen the famous action oiD.
and A. Waldron VS.. John H.. Drake
rasplted in a verdict for 81, 300 IN Ia
yor of the plaintiff by instructions
from the court.
A Russian named Gotlieb Handel
who was returning to Aberdeen WITH
a load of wood from tie Missouri nv
81. became lost in the night and storm
within a mile of his home, n was
found dead the next day.
It is commonly reported at brook
ings that in adjoining counties many
farmers have actually paid as high as
from so to 100 per cent for money.
but the better class OF farners are
more that ordinarily prompt TINS IAN
During the past summer the Bap'
lists at Brookings, have spent S4'aoo
in remodeling and enlarging tnelI
church, and now have one OF the hnes'
in Southeast Dakota.
The annual convention ofthe Grand
lodge Of Dakota, /. o. G. T., was held
at Grand Forks. The report ofGrand
Secretary A. C. Folsom gives Crafty
ing proof Of the progress and develop
ment of the order during h past
year and holds out bright auguries
Tor it's future.
There are a large mum Der OF impor-
tant cases on the calendar OF the Dis
trict Court at Fargo, including the
suit of Gen. Sergent against CT. KIN.
dred and one OF G. f. Westever OF
Chicago against S. G. Robertsf for SOM
SIC, 900 expenses in defending D
suit of Mai. Edwards against b Re
publican company, OF which Mr.. Rod
erts vas president.
A most exciting glove fight took
place at the Aberdeen opera house be-
tween Jack Keefe of Philadelphia,
professional, and Gibson of Eureka,
formerly OF Petersburg, a gamey
amateur. The conditions were Keefe
to knock Gibson out in Six
rounds. Stakes 500 and gate re-
ceipts. After several rounds Gibson
gave the fight to Keefe.
While crossing the Missouri river,
twenty miles below Bismarck, a fami-
Iy consisting of Charles Whalen, wife
and daughter were drowned. They
lost the road and the team passed so
near a large air holethatt the ice broke
and the animals and people were lost.
At the meeting of the State Horti-
cultural Society at Huron the follow
ing officers were chosenfor the ensuing
year: President, E. DeBell, Sioux
Falls; vice president, G.. n. Whiting,
Esmond; secretary, Prof. c. A. ketfer,
Brookings; treasurer, Oliver Gibbs,
Ramsey; director for North Dakota,
William Claussen, Bismarck; for South
Dakota, III. C. Warner. Forestburg;
Alonzo Wardall, Twin Brooks, direct.
or at large. The above also consti.
tuted the executive committee.
Large shipments of butter and eggs
are being made from jamestown to
Washington Territory.
Hon. c. G. Crosse, speaker of the
last house of representatives, is presi.
dent of the newly incorporated farm
ers' alliance.
Hon. j, J. Kleiner OF Pierre, former.
ly congressman from Indiana. is now
in Washington. He will lead in the
work for the Dawes bill on the Sioux
reservation, with some amendments
to the prepared by himself.
A party of five gentlemen standing
together in Rapid City recently, %
clnded they were the heaviest five men
in the vicinity, SO concluded 20 have
themselves weighed Just to make sure
of it. The gentlemen referred to with
their respective weights were as fol.
lows: Ernest Scheleuning, 265; Mr..
Schleuning, brother of Ernest who is
visiting in the city, $50; Myron Willsie,
256; Charles thinner, 235; Dave G.
Ferguson, 22l. Their combined weight
foots UP to the sum total of 1,227
pounds.
The grand lodge, /. o. 6. T., OF Da-
kota, at Grand Forks, elected for the
ensuing year the following officers: G.
C. t., S. p. Watkins, Ash6on: G. c., J..
T. Kean, W~aonsocket; G. V. T. Mrs. j.
p. Cassellman, Grand Forks; grand
secretary, A. c. Folsom, Woonsocket;
grand treasurer, Charles H. Roberts,
Madison; grand chaplain, w. J. Ditch
lie, Drayton; grand marshal, g. Ped
erson, Grand Forks.
The coroner's jury at Yankton re-
turned a verdict of i~ustifable homi-
eide in the ease of John Guisbouer,
killed Paul Kaiser. Guisbouer is held
in jail and will only bs liberated up
on heavy bonds to appear before the
next grand jury. Kaiser has two
brothers who swear the death Of
Grusibour on slight, and there may
be more blood shed.
A fund of $4,000 has been raised by
the Indians on the Sioux reservation
for the purpose of sending Sitting
Bull, Hump and Charger to Washing
ton and having their wants on the
Sioux reservation bill heard. The
Indians are anxious to treat with the
whites, but wish to get money in place
OF horses and cattle. They wish to
handle it themselves. Hump and
Charger are very intelligent and have
represented their people in Washing.
ton on several occasions.